“Now if Rafa appears as a character witness in the SG case, would anyone believe him?”

Haha.

Rafa on the stand: “Stevie was with me the whole time, he was never in the night club and didn’t do anything. He also has never dived, cheated, or influenced referees, and he never handed in a transfer request. These are all facts.”

Another slow motion replay from yesterdays game that should be up for discussion is that of Carvalho pulling down Ronaldo in the Chelsea box, only for Chelsea to win a free-kick, something that you’d understand for referees to make mistakes on, but in the replay you can see Howard Webb clearly, in the line of fire staring straight at it.

@ Tom F, re Ronaldo being man handled by Carvalho, it was discussed in great detail by Andy Gray and Dermot Galagher on skys ‘The last word’ general concencus is that it should be a penalty. Give one as a penalty and defenders would stop doing it. but I think that 90% of defenders do the same every now and then.